Wedding Journey

 
I went on a journey
I went on a journey
I went to find a power animal
a guide for my friends 
power for their marriage 

I went with love
I went with love
to seek a gift of guidance
to seek a gift of power
for my friends
for their marriage 

I went with pride seeking
boldly paddling
my silver canoe
I would bring a gift of power
I would bring a gift of guidance
to my friends
for their marriage

In my canoe I had tokens
so the animal would know them
and willingly come with me
to be with my friends
to be with their marriage

The drum is beating boldly
it carries me in my silver canoe
between rock cliffs
in a place of surge and spray
my heart is beating boldly
this wild place cannot harm me
I go empowered by love
the underworld I visit
for my friends
for their marriage

between rock cliffs I come
to the edge of the world and over
monstrous falls of churning water
through the spray and wild cavortings
of my silver canoe
into the maelstrom below
 there are whales dancing
cavorting in their pleasure
I look at them and doubt it
in my pride I don’t believe
these black and white wild creatures
are killer whales
I see it but I doubt and pass them by.

In the underworld I am now
in the place of spirits
under a cliff I’m sitting
by the restless ocean
and I’m wondering and waiting
for the animal of power
to take to them
to their marriage

and I wait and I grow restless
and I realise my folly
my pride is my undoing
my will’s a chain around me
and I know what I must do

I call to the power of the rising sun
I call to the spirits of the east
and I humbly ask for help
I call to the spirits of the south
and I gently ask for guidance
I call to the spirits of the west
and I ask for what I seek
I call to the spirits of the north
and tell them I alone can’t do it
I call to the sky and the moon
in the name of my friends
I call to the earth beneath me
in the name of my friends
in the name of their marriage

and a small bird comes to see me
it looks at me and knows me
its feathers are black,
its belly is red
it will speak to them
it will give them guidance
it’s here for my friends
it’s here for their marriage
 another bird comes to me
its eye regards me coldly
it is an eagle
it is a huge one
its here to protect them
its here for my friends
it’s here for their marriage

and now the ocean splashes on me
it’s the tails of the whales
they are laughing at me
that in my prideful folly
I ignored them
They are orca

creatures of power
creatures of wisdom
they are the first and the fourth
they are the power animals
they are here for my friends
they are here for the marriage

I ask them to come with me
but how’m I going to carry
such huge and awesome creatures
to the sunny world above?

But trusting now I paddle
my silver canoe upwards
the orca coming after
laughing all the while

it comes up underneath me
and on its back I’m carried
with the wind quick rushing past me
to the sunny world above

Orca willingly came with me
it came to give them power
it came to give them guidance
it gives them its protection
and now in love and celebration
I gladly give him to them
to remember him and seek him
when the need is on them
to remember him and seek him
in this time of jubilation
to remember him and seek him
for all he asks in payment
is to share this upworld with them
in the time that lies ahead.